Public Wrongs and the Criminal Law
This paper is about how best to understand the notion of 'public wrongs' in the longstanding idea that crimes are public wrongs. By contrasting criminal law with the civil laws of torts and contracts, it argues that 'public wrongs' should not be understood merely as wrongs that p...
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Springer Netherlands
2013
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